Criticism In The Dark Night: The Dark Night

The faultiness theory can be seen that without order there will be no anarchy, without murderers who kill lacking penitence there will be no need for the ‘hero’ a protector for the people, the common man.
The first film that I would like to apply the faultlines theory too is, The Dark Night (2008 Directed by Christopher Nolan) in the second installation of the franchise Batman is continuing his war on crime with help from Lieutenant Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent however a new evil is rising in Gotham… The Joker.
Bruce Wayne’s origins story for the Batman is filled with great pain fear; his parents had died at the hands of criminals and wished to rid his city of the polluted evil it had become consumed by. He hoped to inspire the people of Gotham to stand up these criminals, but that truly wasn’t enough, he had to become more than just a man to inspire. The Batman was created to become an incorruptible and eternal symbol to bring about a change in Gotham.
The antithesis of Batman - The Joker, a terrorist and deranged killer. He is madness incarnate. However there is a profound simplicity, a calm at times within The Jokers brutal character “Why so serious?” (Joker The Dark Knight). The character treads a fine line between insanity and great brilliance. It is this menacing attitude that makes him such a prolific villain, he wants nothing but to be “an agent of chaos” (Joker The Dark Knight). He stands for anarchy and madness, the creation of a changing society post 9/11, a terrorist threatening to voice out and defy the government going against the dominant system. He sets about knocking out the system from the ground up, one by one creating fear and anarchy “the only sensible way to live in this world is without rules”...

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...to the forefront, the excessive greed of a man that will soon alienate him from all his relationships.
As any rags to riches Gangster story we see Tony working his way up, a body guard for one of the big gangsters and quickly sees that to get ahead in this business you have to step over people, taking the saying ‘do what you have to, to get ahead’ to the extreme. As his character grows throughout the film we see Tony turn into a vicious greedy man, his saying “the world is yours” mantra showed that he wanted it all. He made his way to the top; looking back at all his former bosses now he had what they had and so much more.
Along the way Tony not only confronts many people but also a structure of values. By chasing the American Dream he drops into the same trap as many others, the attraction and appeal of wealth, the money that needs to be attained no matter what.